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American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age

Name: American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Kevin Flynn
ISBN: 9781611687026

Kevin Flynn

272 pages

ForeEdge

Oct 2015

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Long banned in the United States, the Federal government told New Hampshire in 1963 it couldn't start a lottery - not without breaking a score of laws and courting infiltration by racketeers. Led by a motley group of characters - including a governor betting his political career and a celebrated FBI agent - they pushed ahead anyway. That set the first state-operated lottery on a collision course with the Feds, the media, and the church.

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It brings together notorious characters like Whitey Bulger

This book is about so much more than the lottery. It brings together notorious characters like Whitey Bulger, Bobby Kennedy and obscure small state politicians in a compelling yarn that captures a moment in American history. Read more

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Pages 272

Publisher ForeEdge

Published 2015

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